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sclawrenc
Sep 30, 2019Apprentice
Status:
New Idea
Add The ability to separate the SSIDs for 2.4ghz and 5ghz
Please provide the ability to separate the SSIDs for the 2.4ghz and 5ghz WiFi bands. I need this functionality to help support my 4K media devices and some of the older 2.4ghz only devices.
sclawrenc
Oct 01, 2019Apprentice
I understand everything you are saying about the mesh.
I would like to reiterate my request to add the ability to separate the ssid for the 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz bands. This WOULD be helpful for netgear customers since the request has come up multiple times from multiple people. The Orbi has a dedicated band for communication between the router and satellites. This is very helpful for people wanting to blanket large homes or businesses in fast WiFi within having to run cat 5 cable everywhere for dedicated access points. We SHOULD be able to control the ssid for the separate bands IF we want to.
The ability to separate via telnet used to work and I was extremely happy, but sadly it no longer works after the Orbi reboots.
thanks for your comment.